The Fifth S-Class Dark Energy Manipulator Was... Me

In the Virtual Meeting Room, when Lin Yu voiced his idea, almost everyone except Lin Fan and a small number of others was somewhat surprised.

After all, the Doomsday Bomb was humanity's greatest trump card at present. And since it was called a trump card, shouldn't it be reserved as a final fallback? Yet Lin Yu was suggesting using it right from the start. Wasn't that a little too rash?

However, compared to everyone else, Lin Fan was not nearly as surprised.

To Lin Fan, a trump card was something used at the most suitable time and in the most suitable place. Did they have to wait until the Federal Fleet had suffered devastating casualties before remembering that they still had a trump card they had not used?

That was simply absurd!

"Quiet!"

Looking at the conference room below, which had already become somewhat noisy, Lin Fan knocked on the table and shouted.

"Indeed, just as Lin Yu said, if we cannot give them sufficient deterrence, then even if we successfully withdraw from the Holter Supercluster to the Renos Supercluster, we still cannot guarantee that they will not pursue us!"

"You must understand that Aierfei only has five conventional attack groups under her command. Forget fleet combat power comparable to a Tenth Order Civilization—even facing an ordinary Ninth Order Civilization would be incredibly difficult."

"So, what if they really follow behind Aierfei and chase her to the Renos Supercluster?"

"Keep retreating?"

"Retreat all the way to the Bosnia Supercluster?"

"Hand over all the territory we fought so hard to seize over the years?"

Lin Fan's string of questions immediately left those generals who had wanted to oppose using the Doomsday Bomb speechless.

Lin Fan was not being alarmist. This was something with a very real chance of happening.

"Lin Yu,